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A Rwandan farmers stands in her field of maize with hills rising behind her in the background.
Feeding the World: Why we must do more than just increase yields
… The paper urges a rethink of the increasingly popular policy goal of "sustainable intensification", which aims to produce more food per unit … Toulmin, director of the International Institute for Environment and Development. “We need a new and more sophisticated definition; one that … affect: biodiversity and land-use; animal welfare; human nutrition; rural economies; and sustainable development. "To feed the world’s …
News, 05 July 2013
Women work in a knitwear factory
The future of work, technological change and global inequality
… But technological change also brings opportunities for inclusive and sustainable development. Developing countries can leapfrog out-dated technologies, … may not just lose their smallholder farmers, but also the bulk of rural livelihoods. Social protection schemes will have to support people …
Insight, 02 November 2018
Cooperative members at the Federation of Cooperatives of the Verapaces nursery in Cobán, Guatemala operate a compost packing machine. FEDECOVERA oversees the production of cardamom, allspice, coffee, tea, cocoa, essential oils, grains and vegetables (Photo: Juan José Ochaeta/FEDECOVERA)
IIED marks international forests day with major new research report and toolkit
… Forest business incubation is a process that accelerates the development of successful, sustainable forest businesses that serve both people and forests. … the Paris Agreement, strengthening forest economies, increasing rural incomes and improving climate resilience. Peter de Marsh, chair of …
News, 21 March 2018
A road going into the distance splits two fields
Stopping land and policy grabs in the shadow of COVID-19
… citizen empowerment . They also helped challenge abuses and advance development that places local producers centre-stage.  In the longer … economic recovery. In many agrarian societies, land supports rural livelihoods, provides a safety net and sustains social identity. …
Insight, 01 June 2020
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The Other Side of the Mountain: The impact of Europe's common agricultural policy on sustainable agriculture in the South
… practitioners, this paper looks at ways in which the CAP is affecting sustainable agriculture in the developing world, through detailed … a tool for ensuring food self-sufficiency in Europe while preserving rural quality of life, to the present, where both World Trade rules and the expansion of the EU require major reform. The notion of sustainable agriculture, and some of its strengths and weaknesses, are …
Publication, 01 January 1999
Uganda meeting
Making markets work for small-scale farmers? A series of ‘provocation’ seminars
… 28 September 2010   Provocation 2: Rights-based versus market-based development: a false dichotomy?   Stockholm, Sweden, 3 March 2011   … producer empowerment Brussels,Belgium, 22June 2011   Provocation 6: Rural youth today, farmers tomorrow? , The Hague, Netherlands, 22 May … working on the provocations included: Centre for Learning on sustainable agriculture (ILEIA) Empowering Smallholder Farmers in …
Event, 28 September 2010
Women living in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve are trained to sustainably harvest xate palms, providing them with income and preserving the reserve's biodiversity (Photo: Dani Newcomb/USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The role, influence and impact of women in biodiversity conservation
… decisions is critical to ensure that biodiversity conservation and sustainable use efforts are successful in the long term. Without the … potential to contribute to biodiversity conservation and sustainable development is still to be fully explored This is especially true for indigenous and rural women, who are often more marginalised in decision-making …
Insight, 09 October 2018
Madizini in Tanzania grew from a village into an urban centre, initially because the local sugarcane plantations and factory needed workers. Now the town supports a wide array of businesses (Photo: Jytte Agergaard)
Reframing food security for an urbanising world
… food security and improved nutrition is central in current global development agendas and debates. Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2) aims to achieve zero hunger by … to reflect on the nature and diversity of urbanisation processes and rural-urban linkages, their impacts on food systems and what this means …
Insight, 10 April 2017
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 3 The use of sustainability analysis in Northeast Thailand
… describes NERAD's attempt to do effectively utilise information in rural this for `Sustainability Analysis', one of the development programs. These techniques or first tools to be documented … Rapid Rural Appraisal approaches. However, their adoption by national development programs has been ... …
Publication, 01 January 1988
The sky is visible through a forest
Exploring why people eat wild meat – and designing better alternatives
… wild meat. Often missing from this discussion is the fact that many rural communities depend on wild meat for their food security and … projects try to replace the consumption of wild meat with more sustainable options. However, project success has been mixed or lacking … to use by September 2020. We’ll be working with conservation and development practitioners across sub-Saharan Africa and beyond, to test …
Insight, 29 July 2020